As death approached, Tom's heart gradually regained its calm.
Even now, he did not regret the choice he had made.
If given another chance, Tom knew clearly that he would still choose to carry out this mission.
Being retaliated against by the Destroyer Civilization at this moment could at most be described as a low-probability event occurring, and he simply had bad luck.
If he had abandoned the moral and value concepts inherited from Human Civilization that he had upheld for such a low-probability event, then he would not be worthy of being a human.
Furthermore, the Destroyer Civilization regarded all intelligent beings in the entire Milky Way, except themselves—whether legitimate intelligent civilizations or Mechanical Disaster life forms—as enemies, and would launch destructive strikes upon encountering them.
This meant that as long as he wanted to develop in this Milky Way, he would eventually confront the Destroyer Civilization one day.
